“I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.”
— Jean Genet
Author: Jean Genet
Category: beauty
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A great wind swept over the ghetto,
“A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.”
— Jean Genet
Author: Jean Genet
Category: great
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
— Jean Genet
Author: Jean Genet
Category: dreams
Tags: dreams, Jean Genet